Valuing education for limited-resource audiences using a willingness to accept experiment
Russell Tronstad, Ibrahima Sall · 2026
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Russell Tronstad and Ibrahima Sall valued education programs for people with limited resources, in a PLOS ONE paper from 2026. Extension programs teach farming and life skills, but they must prove their worth to funders and to the audiences themselves. The authors used a willingness-to-accept experiment, asking what payment people would accept in place of the teaching.
Tronstad and Sall's valuations put hard numbers on what participants judge the education to be worth. Program planners can compare those values with costs when deciding what to offer. The method respects the audience's own judgment instead of assuming benefit. For services aimed at low-income communities, that respect, backed by numbers, strengthens the case for funding what truly helps.
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| CREATOR | Russell Tronstad, Ibrahima Sall |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 67188 |
| LICENSE | CC_BY |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | PLOS |